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Heigh-Ho! Heigh-Ho! Breaking Down Dead Leaves!
Leaf-cutter ants, fungi and bacteria are playing as a team when it comes to the most energy possible out of dead leaves, and scientists think that by studying this 50-million years old “symbiotic bioreactor” they can figure out how to make biofuels more effectively. But they can’t just study the ants, or the fungi, or the bacteria in isolation; they have to look at the whole thing together and sequence the whole community genome (17 different organisms). Read on to find out how these …
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